On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:41:52 +0300
Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
> (during the boot phase)?
Just an idea for a possible direction to point your investigation to...
/etc/config-archive/etc/conf.d/xdm:
===
# Tell X to alw
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:38:31PM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> eContext' is deprecated (declared at
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcod
> ec/avcodec.h:2447)
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330/work/ffmpeg/libavcodec/avcodec.
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > # rc-upate del xdm
> > # echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
> >
> > I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
> > wanna verify that.
> >
> > --
> > Albert W. Hopkins
> >
> You might want to s
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
system?
- Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200
Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and
> '/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.)
>
> def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ;
> end
>
> pw = users "/et
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
>
> - Grant
Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system
quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and
modules
On 10:26 Sun 30 Sep, Alan McKinnon wrote
> On Sunday 30 September 2007, Steve Dommett wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
> > > gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
> >
> > Not
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Grant,
>
> > For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
> > /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
> > /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
>
> Othe
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400
Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700
> Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does something like
> > '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the t
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:31:58 -0500
Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
> > How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
> > (during the boot phase)?
>
> I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot becau
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:55:40 -0230
Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the configs were the same as the diskless install docs on the
> Gentoo alt-install page, with suitable modifications of the ip and MAC
> addresses in the dhcpd.conf. I _was using pxegrub but, on a whim, I
> tried sy
Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> That's exactly what I wanted to explain to Dale ;)
>
> Sorry if I puzzled you.
I just know that -a means all files including hidden ones. I like to
keep it simple, so I can understand it. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
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Hello Jerry McBride,
> > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world?
> > Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their
> > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file.
> It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Jerry McBride,
>
> > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
> > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
> > process I run this script via cron...
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > rm /p
Hello Jerry McBride,
> Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a
> duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build
> process I run this script via cron...
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> rm /portage.list/*.*
>
> emerge -pe --color=n system > /portage.list/system.list
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
Rather than backup MySQL's or Postgres' binary storage I prefer to use the
relevant tool (mysqldump, pgdump[all]) to backup the database
to /root/backups/ just prior to
Hi group,
This one is still giving me grief:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv xine-ui
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330
[0.4.9_p20060302] USE="X%* encode ieee1394 mmx ogg oss
sdl truetype v
Hi,
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400
Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
> >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes,
> >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem.
> >>
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote:
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
snip...
Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of
an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this
script
Hello Grant,
> For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
> /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
> /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var?
Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept in /var/lib/mysql.
--
Neil Bothwick
Hello Grant,
> /boot/grub/grub.conf too. Does anyone leave /boot mounted all the time?
Yes, mounted read-only. It avoids accidentally copying a new kernel
to /boot without mounting it. that's on the machines that have a
separate /boot, something I no longer bother with.
--
Neil Bothwick
Cros
Hello Grant,
> Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
> same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
> Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
I use rsync.net, offsite backups using duplicity for GPG encryption.
--
Neil
> > > I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
> > > like a CD-RW).
> >
> > But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
> > to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
>
> I can't believe you actually asked that. Think, man,
> > Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
> > same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
> > Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings
> > like a CD-RW).
>
> But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns
> to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.
I can't believe you ac
Trying to get DRI working on a Radeon X850 on AMD64.
In my Xorg log, I"m seeing:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib64/dri/r300_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
And sure enough, th
On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote:
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
- Grant
Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is
> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >>> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> >>> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >>>
> >>> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >>
Grant schrieb:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb:
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
Which shell do you use? Bash's default behavior (I don't know whether
you can change that) is that it doesn't expand * to all files and
directories but only the nonhidden.
Just try the following:
ls -l --directory --all
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> > from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >
> > /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >
> >
>
Grant wrote:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
>>> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
>>> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
>>>
>>> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /s
> > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
> >
> > In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> > from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
> >
> > /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
> >
> >
>
> > > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> system?
> > > >
> > > > - Grant
> > >
> > > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
> >
> > What about splitting tar.gz files across multiple CDs? Can that be done?
> >
> > - Grant
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTE
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
>
> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
>
> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
>
>
> /var contains t
Sorry, I hit "send" too early; my answer is missing the last part.
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > Is it possible that you mean regular expressions and not Bash's
> > expansion feature?
This is possible (well, sort of) enabling the "extglob" option in
bash. But still, this
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Which shell do you use? Bash's default behavior (I don't know whether
> you can change that) is that it doesn't expand * to all files and
> directories but only the nonhidden.
>
> Just try the following:
> ls -l --directory --all ~/*
>
> On my
Dale schrieb:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Arnau Bria schrieb:
Hi,
My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want t
Florian Philipp wrote:
> Arnau Bria schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
>> has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
>> Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
>> wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want
Arnau Bria schrieb:
Hi,
My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it
has fs errors, so I have to fsck it.
Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm
wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data
from old disk to new disk,
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb:
Grant skrev:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /s
Ok, I'll try with IsInNet and patience..!
Thanks !
Ben
2007/9/27, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:26:44PM +0200, Penguin Lover Benjamin Graf
> squawked:
> > Thanks for the answer !
> >
> > How can I see what myIpAddress() returns ? I tried it in a simple html
> > p
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello pat,
>
>> I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not
>> possible, because of gcc 3.3.6.
>
> What does this mean? What is GCC 3.3.6 doing that prevents your
> upgrading? Or do you mean that something wants to install gcc-3.3.6?
>
> If the latte
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Steve Dommett wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
> > gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
>
> Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo lis
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
> gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Not here. I've never seen duplicates from any gentoo list. I /have/ seen
several other folks on gentoo-user repor
On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag, 30. September 2007, Grant wrote:
> > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard
> > system?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time.
/usr/local too, otherwise you get to
Hi,
I'm getting a lot of duplicate messages lately, especially from
gentoo-users. I don't know if it's an error on my side or not.
Did anyone else get 20+ copies of Grant's last mail, about backing up
dot files in ~ ?
alan
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